http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/Dec 12th 2007 9:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/
News that Dell is going to put Multi-touch on their tablet? Well sir, it's time to smother this story with some Apple references, even though they have nothing to do with this at all, because I don't want another company associated with this first.

Apple shilling FTW!!!]]>Dec 12th 2007 10:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/
Apple was the first to introduce multi-touch to the masses (ie, beyond the various touch tech demos) in actual products (iPhone and iPod Touch).

Dell and others are jumping on the "touch" bandwagon hoping to beat Apple with large scale "touch" products (notice how so many products are suddenly "touch" since the iPhone intro?). Problem is, there have been and are single touch products out there but nary a multi-touch to "touch" the iPhone/iPodTouch experience and usage.

Any doubt that Apple will (eventually) move it's (OS X based) multi-touch to some of it's other larger scale products?

Who is it trying to be first with vague announcements of "sometime in the future" while Apple has actually shipped? (no need to respond... a rhetorical question).

...

]]>Dec 12th 2007 12:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/
No, I notice how this is a natural progression of the Tablet PC line. It's not like touch screens weren't used until the iPhone was introduced. If you really want to talk about the first real mass-market touch screen device, you have to go with the Nintendo DS. Over 50 million sold so far. How many iPhones have been sold?]]>Dec 12th 2007 1:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/
Next it will be flash drives in everything from Dell and lord knows what next.

Sweet Jeebus if they try to copy Leopard and the Apple logo. They'll only end up with a wailing hyena and a rotten apple with a worm popping out.

Anyway, it doesn't matter which company had it first, it only matters which company winds up making massive profits and raising the stock price for investors. Screw the technology, more power to the profits.

Dell's heading for the toilets so they might as well take a last gasp before being flushed in a spiral burial at the Urine Sea.

Apple shilling! FTW]]>Dec 12th 2007 5:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/Dec 12th 2007 5:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/False: Apple is not the company equivalent to Jesus. Not every story about computers needs a 'FTW' comment in it. Just because other companies have the same things as Apple doesn't mean they are copying them; rumor has it both Apple and Dell use light bulbs, Dell bastards!]]>Dec 12th 2007 11:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/Dec 16th 2007 4:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/Dec 12th 2007 9:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/Dec 12th 2007 9:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/
Getting back to the subject at hand... I suspect that Dell is being careful about their specific implementation of this technology, and has held the drivers until they are vetted by their legal department as not infringing on Apple's patent. Also, it probably won't be called "Multi Touch" when it is released because I believe Apple has trademarked that phrase.]]>Dec 12th 2007 9:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/
http://jacquelinelafloufa.files.wordpress.com/2007/06/minority-report-touch-screen.jpg]]>Dec 12th 2007 9:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/
Apple doesn't have a patent on this, as they didn't invent it.

They want to trademark the word, which is plain disgusting, because their are many devices that use this tech, that APPLE DID NOT INVENT.]]>Dec 12th 2007 10:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/Dec 12th 2007 11:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/
http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/apr2007/gb20070405_436341.htm]]>Dec 12th 2007 1:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/Just waiting for what is Apple bringing in Jan. Otherwise I'll have to get this one.]]>Dec 12th 2007 9:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/
OK... I'll call Dell and tell them I'll give them $2700 for it.. just not right now... right now I'll give them $1200ish for it ... and at some later date I will give them the other $1500 ... in 2007 US dollars.

Another decade and that ought to buy them a couple of gallons of gas.

- m]]>Dec 12th 2007 10:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/Dec 12th 2007 10:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/Dec 12th 2007 10:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/Dec 12th 2007 12:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/
http://www.pc.ibm.com/ca/thinkpad/tablet/sitelet/features.html]]>Dec 12th 2007 10:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/Dec 12th 2007 12:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/Dec 12th 2007 12:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/Dec 12th 2007 10:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/Dec 12th 2007 11:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/Dec 12th 2007 1:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/Dec 12th 2007 11:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/
Wow. That is sad.

Furthermore, it shows just how far Vista is from being 'touch' ready. Teeny tiny buttons. Brilliant.]]>Dec 12th 2007 11:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/Dec 12th 2007 5:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/Dec 12th 2007 12:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/Fixed it for you. No need to thank me.]]>Dec 12th 2007 4:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/Dec 12th 2007 12:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/Dec 12th 2007 12:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/
Dell's a sinking ship.. it's interesting to note that they were going to be the first to market with a tablet when Tablet PC for XP was released.. Microsoft even had a dell-specific helpdesk ready to go.

then Michael scrapped it. and microsoft used HP and toshiba products instead.

Excellent work Dell.. ugh.]]>Dec 12th 2007 1:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/
BUT, how come every post about apple get low rank , why? some of them are quite true.]]>Dec 12th 2007 1:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/
j/k ]]>Dec 12th 2007 2:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/
1. Most of us non-Apple types (or in my case, ex-Apple types) are really, really, REALLY tired of hearing about one brand of computer shoved in our faces all the time even when it's completely irrelevent to the discussion. It's like going into a restaurant and ordering pancakes and having the waiter explain why the pancakes would be better if Apple made them. It's tiresome.

2. We're also tired of the massive hype the industry smothers on Apple. It's wildly out of proportion with the actual marketshare they have and it's resulted in a weird view that all new and interesting things come from Apple, which simply isn't true. That came to a head here with the month long iPhone orgy that resulted in a huge backlash against Engadget that we're still just working through.

3. We're tired of the confrontational attitude of most Apple fans. It's not good enough to say 'Here's something from Apple and we think it's cool,' it has to be accompanied with 'And your PC choices are garbage and evil and you dress funny and smell.' (See Apple's current Mac vs PC ads.) That's not going to help garner much love from non-Apple types.

4. We're also tired of the implication that Mac users are somehow more sophisticated, individualistic, intelligent, cultured, artistic and creative than PC users. Apple has a style. It's a nice one. But it's not a style everyone wants. One nice thing about the PC world is that there's diversity. If you don't like one system, you can find another. The Mac world, ironically, seems to be about one system, one design, one way of doings things: the Apple way.

5. And then there's the general lack of finesse. Mac fans seem to be incapable of subtlety. Everything is loud and insulting and obnoxious and usually inappropriate and often just wrong. Again, the Mac vs PC ads are loaded with factual errors (like the one which claims Mac laptops run Vista fastest) or exaggerations (like the one which implies that the only thing you can do on a PC is greyscale pie charts).

There are other reasons as well, but I think these are the top five. I hope this clears things up for you.

]]>Dec 12th 2007 2:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/
My Samsung Q1U with a resistive screen does the flick gestures and handwriting as well, and a growing number of laptops have hybrid screens with resistive touch AND Wacom electromagnetic digitisers (not electrostatic as he calls it).

Really, the only advantages capacitive has are no need for a layer on the screen that resistive has, more accuracy in detection (which you lose because you're using a finger - but anyway) and the potential for multitouch.

It's worth it as it's a cleaner, clearer experience - but is it worth $2500?

Nope.]]>Dec 12th 2007 2:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/
IT'S NOT A MAC.]]>Dec 12th 2007 3:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/
j/k ]]>Dec 12th 2007 3:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/Dec 12th 2007 8:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/Dec 12th 2007 3:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/Dec 12th 2007 10:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/Dec 12th 2007 4:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/Flick? That looks like.... ]]>Dec 12th 2007 11:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/latit/en/latit_xt_specsheet.pdf'. the INPUT DEVICES is finger touch!! Yes, only finger touch, why? where is Michael Dell's so-called 'multi-touch'? Nowhere humans! But the touch screen XT used is capacitive touchscreen! Heah,Heah,Heah, listen! Capactitive touchscreen is only one of the most used three kinds of touchscreens, although it's expensive but if you payed for them, you could get them, no matter who you are. But the multi-touch is one of the patents of Apple, everyone can speak out the word 'multi-touch', but only Apple knows how to make use of it,and only Apple can use it! Then how is the DELL? Well,well,the finger touch or as the single touch tech. is as far as DELL can go, although the tochscreen is capacitive one! Sad DELL, you are always boasting you old lies that 'I'm a fool, please follow me, fool'!]]>Dec 13th 2007 12:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/
A simple statement. What it means is this: you've got the choice between a Honda and a Porsche. You drive the Honda, and think, "hmm, nice features, smooth ride, affordable... this is pleasant." Then you drive the porsche, and without saying anything immediately cr@p your pants.]]>Dec 13th 2007 1:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:ZAZ-968_front.jpg ).

Regards.]]>Dec 17th 2007 10:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/Dec 13th 2007 1:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-will-have-multi-touch-just-not-for-a-wh/Dec 15th 2007 5:57PM